Paul McCartney Quotes

• George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

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• I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn’t a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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• I can’t deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

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• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

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• I don’t take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don’t mind.

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• I don’t work at being ordinary.

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• I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don’t want to say anything.

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• I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

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• I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.

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• I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that’s all I’m ever trying to do.

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• I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that’s all I’m ever trying to do.

   

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• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

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• When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

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• When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

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• We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

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• To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.

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• Think globally, act locally.

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• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

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• Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn’t like either to interfere with the other.

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• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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Paul McCartney (89)

Birth:	18th June, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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